Proprietary Quotes

38 quotes by 26 authors

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a… — Tim O'Reilly
If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because… — Tim Berners-Lee
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand,… — R. H. Tawney
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. — Larry Wall
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in… — Richard Stallman
We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. — Hanna Rosin
At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I… — Denise Scott Brown
The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and… — Jeremy Rifkin
It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail. — Bernard Madoff
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage… — Richard Stallman
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun,… — Richard Stallman
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked… — Matt Mullenweg
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to… — Matt Mullenweg
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world… — Jimmy Wales
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to… — Zack Snyder

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